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H. HBRTZBERG, A. A. LOW & M. J. WOHL.

ELECTROOUTING TRAP.

APPLICATION FILE) AUG.10,1909.

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ELEOTROGUTING TRAP.

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AND HARRY HERTZBJERG, TRUSTEES.

OF NEW YORK, ABBOT A. LOW, HORSESHOE, AND MAURICE J. WOHL, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS T0 SAID ABBO'I AuLOW, MAURICE J. WOHL,

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"Application filed August 10, 1909. Serial No. 512,122. 1

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HAimrHEn'rzBnno, Anno'r A. Low, and MAURICE J. WOHL, citizens of the United States, and residents, respectively, of the city ofNew York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York; of Horseshoe, St. Lawrence county, State of New York, and of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electrocuting-Traps, of which the follow ing is a specification.

This invention relates to traps, and the object is first to electrocute the animal and then to cause it to he deposited in a receptacle, preferably containing water, where the animal will drown if life he not extinct.

The trap will be useful as a mouse-trap and for other kinds of animals.

Briefly described, the invention may be saidto comprise a trap-door, an electrocut ing circuit having one electrode on said door and the other adjacent thereto, and means for actuating said trap-door when the electrocuting charge is passed through the animal. I

Other features and phases of the invention will become apparent as the specification proceeds.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating What is regarded as a suitable embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the trap, Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section, Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view showing one system of wiring, and Figs. 4 and 5 are detail perspectives showing two other ways of mounting the trap-door.

Referring to these views, the numeral 1 indicates a platform, which may or may not. be elevated. It is shown as forming the top of a box 2, havin a drawer or receptacle 3, holding water. However, the liquid-receptacle might be at some distance below the platform 1, as beneath the floor of the room in which the trap is located.- In the several views, 1, 4, 4: indicate different forms of trapdoor mounted in the platform 1.

Figs. 1 to 3 show a single trap-door pivotally supported intermediate its length, as on an oscillatory shaft 5; the said shaft being actuated by a rotary shaft 6, through a link 7 and a crank 9. The said link may be pivoted at one end eccentrically to a gear 8 carried on the shaft 6 and at the other end to the crank 9 on the oscillatory shaft 5. By reason of the relation of the crank arms, a complete revolution of the shaft 6 will tilt the trapdoor 4, and then restore it to normal position. Fig. 5 shows a. trap-door similarly mounted and actuated, except that the door is pivoted at its rear end.

Fig. 4 shows a double trap-door 1 the two parts of which are supported pivotally at their remote ends on oscillatory shafts 5*, having cranks 9. The cranks 9 are connected by links 7 with a disk or double crank 8, having a crank 9 connected with the gear 8 by a link 7; It will be obvious that the trap-door may be mounted and op erated in a variety of ways. a

The trap-door, i, l or 4", carries an electrode, preferably in the nature of a metal plate 10. Located adjacent this electrode 10, and preferably constituting a bait-holder thereover, is the other electrode 11 of the electrocuting circuit l l, which ma be in series with the secondary winding of the induction coil 13. 11, when moved by the animal in nibbling at the bait, closes a normally-open circuitbreaker 15. suspend the bait-holder 11 pivotally, as at 16; the contact portion 17 thereof bein normally held away from the fixed contat 18 by the force of gravity. This circuit-breaker 15, in the preferable arrangement, is insulated from the bait holder 11 and electroouting circuit 14-. by the insulating portion 15 and is common both to the circuit 3 1 of the primary winding of the coil 13, and, to a circuit 19, both of which may be supplied by a battery 12. Circuit 19 is in series with an electro-magnet 20. The said electro-magnet, when energized, completes a circuit 21, as by tilting a mercury circuit-breaker 22. The circuit 21, supplied from any source, as a battery 23, is in series with a motor 24, the shaft of which carries a gear 25, meshing with the gear 8. When the shaft 6 and gear 8 have completed a revolution, means actuated thereby, as a cam 26 and a vertical pushrod 27, restore the mercury circuit-breaker to normal position, that is, with the circuit 21 open. It will be obvious, however, that the invention is not limited to the precise mannor of actuating the trap-door.

When the animal stands upon the plate 10 Preferably, this bait-holder the secondaryinserted a slide 32,

coil, an electrocuting circuit in series with with.

and touches the bait-holder 11, itcompletes l or electrocuting circuit 14-. When it moves the bait-holder so as to close the circuit-breaker 15, it completes the primary circuit 34 through the coil 13 and its make and break magnetic circuit breaker l3 and receives the electric shock through its body, and at the same time causes the trapdoor to be actuated.

A counter or register of an suitable or well-known construction is in icated at 28, having an operating part 29 in position to be actuated by the trap-door mechanism, as by the end of the link 7 contacting there- "lhus, the number of animals caught may be learned at a glance.

Any suitable means, as inclines 30, may be provided for enabling the mice or other animals to gain the platform 1.

' The receptacle or drawer 3 is preferably provided near the top and through its front with horizontal guides 31, in which may be for preventing the escape of any living animals from the open top of the receptacle when the latter is removed trom the box 2. It is desirable, but not necessary, that this slide be of foraminous material, so that the contents of the drawer may be viewed therethrou 11. Of course, this slide is not in place'w en the trap is in use.

As much of the electrical apparatus and mechanical actuating parts as may be desired may be inclosed, as in a superstructure 33.

What is claimed as new is:

1. lnatrap, a trap-door, an induction the secondary of said coil, having one electrode on said trap-door and the other adjacent thereto, the latter electrode constituting a movable bait-holder, a circuit and by said motor, connection means operable thereby to actuate said coil, an electrocutmg circuit in series with and a circuit breaker common to the secondary of said coil, having one electrode on said trap-door and the other adjacent thereto, the latter electrode constituting a movable bait-holder, a circuit and means operable thereby to actuate said trapdoor, and a normally-open circuit-breaker carried by said bait-holder, said circuitbreaker being common to the last-named circuit and to the primary circuit of said induction coil.

3. In a trap, an oscillatory trap-door, an elcctrocuting circuit having one electrode on said trap-door and the other adjacent thereto, a normally-open circuit, means for closing said circuit when the electrocuting current is passed through an animal on said trap-door, said means including an electromagnet and a circuit-breaker adapted to be closed thereby, a motor in said normallyopen circuit, a shaft adapted to be driven between said shaft and said trap-door whereby one revolution of said shaft causes said trap-door first to tilt and then to be restored tonormal position, and cam mechanism whereby said shaft reopens 'said circuit breaker after one revolution.

Signed at Brooklyn, N. Y., of Kings, and State of New York, day of July, 1909.

HARRY HERTZBERG. ABBOT A. LOW. MAURICE J. W'OHL.

in the county this 20th GEO. WELLING GIDDINGS. 

